Swan Studios Mural and Faux Finish Adventures: Home Bar Makeover

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Home Bar Makeover

Home bars are meant for pleasure. Whether it’s enjoying a romantic evening for two, relaxing after a long day at work, or hosting a party for friends. Visually, it should be a pleasure as well. This make over certainly is. Inspired from an art piece hung in the bar area, this is an extreme make over. The bar counter and bar cabinetry were all originally a dark wood-stained finish. The feel was more men’s cigar club. The new look is bright, fun, flirty, and a balance between elegant and quirky. Let’s dive into this makeover:

Before and After:

Close up view of the Back bar Cabinet :

Gotta admit, it's fun to fling paint ! Theses door fronts were removed and the paint was flung on outside

Close up view of the Front Bar inset:

Didn't have the luxury of flinging these insets outside. Instead, the room was wrapped in plastic tarp and using two paint brushes, the paint was spattered by tapping one brush handle onto the brush with the paint :

Even the metal foot bar was given new life with metal paint. The top counters were painted to look like black marble and then given a few layers of counter top epoxy for durability. Preferably, this would be done offsite. However, in this case as in doing built in cabinets , the counter top had to be poured onsite.

Even a side wine storage cabinet received the paint spatter look:

The bun feet of the front bar cabinet already had the marquis cut ins. They re now painted to resemble the red and yellow marquis pattern glass in the back storage cabinet

Besides paint spatter, I love painting with glitter. This piece was painted originally by the homeowner at a sip and paint party. I've repainted it in cornucopia of glitter colors and then epoxied the canvas for both look and protection.